Hi,
jr wrote:
2. Clearer organisation for data and settings saved by apps would be
great. Whenever I look for data or settings saved by an app, I need
to google to find out which folder that app saves its data and
settings to.
yes, things used to be easier before the
I go away for about 24 hours and come back to what I was hoping in the first
place, ie other people's lists :-)
@Tim: I like the way you summed up the problem of choice for a new user and
I like the idea of recommendations from the distro maintainers.
@jr: I think it's great for those who know a
Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's
been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody
knows about that?
See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/
Open sourcers have seized control of the
On 04/11/10 08:59, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's
been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody
knows about that?
See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:36:25PM +, jr wrote:
On 3 November 2010 10:31, John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net wrote:
My list would be:
(2) Create something to rival and improve on Remote Desktop on Windows.
VNC, remote X11 and No Machine don't quite do it, although all of them are
hi John,
I use rdesktop to connect to Windows machines a lot, but AFAIK there is no
Linux server for this protocol.
a quick google on 'linux rdp server' found xrdp:
http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/
and the following comments:
http://www.whenpenguinsattack.com/2006/04/19/rdp-server-for-linux/
On Thursday 04 Nov 2010, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's
been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody
knows about that?
See:
On 02/11/10 08:45, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Just wondering if any of you read Linux Format's 24 Things we'd change
about Linux (issue 137) and what your thoughts were? It got me thinking
about what I'd like to see changed in Linux so I wrote a blog post about it
(see link below).
(1) Create a way to share files between machines on a LAN really easily
that doesn't hang the system if the network goes away. SAMBA is too
complex. sshfs can hang a whole machine if a network goes down.
NFS soft mounts?
cheers,
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hi Natalie,
I never said automated GUIs. CLI options can be presented in a GUI with
documentation available when you click the ? button for example. There is
no need to dumb anything down, just to be a bit more graphical in the way an
app interact with the user (who may choose to use the CLI
On 03/11/2010 12:41, jr wrote:
I'd suggest that one area where we would benefit from improvements is
better integration with Windoze, particularly the MS Exchange/Outlook
combo (as mentioned earlier, though that's obviously not Linux kernel
territory).
I wondered about this for a while and
On 3 November 2010 12:49, Simon P Smith simon.sm...@askitsdone.co.uk wrote:
I wondered about this for a while and then discovered the lightening
plugin for thundebird.
Now I have multiple networked calendars (including some google ones)
integrated and
shared with free/busy time (caldav).
On 03/11/2010 12:41, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 03/11/10 11:04, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
(1) Create a way to share files between machines on a LAN really easily
that doesn't hang the system if the network goes away. SAMBA is too
complex. sshfs can hang a whole machine if a network goes
On 03/11/10 15:22, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
sounds like you need the automounter, then!
I dunno if it's the same on linux, but on solaris, the default automount
configuration allows you to browse any other nfs server on your network
via /net/hostname/nfs_share without prior configuration.
On 3 November 2010 10:31, John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net wrote:
My list would be:
(2) Create something to rival and improve on Remote Desktop on Windows.
VNC, remote X11 and No Machine don't quite do it, although all of them are
good in some ways.
have you tried 'rdesktop(1)' John?
Just wondering if any of you read Linux Format's 24 Things we'd change
about Linux (issue 137) and what your thoughts were? It got me thinking
about what I'd like to see changed in Linux so I wrote a blog post about it
(see link below).
On 02/11/10 08:45, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I'd like to know your thoughts about this, what you agree/disagree with,
what you would add etc.
Hi Natalie,
See comment number two!
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On 2 November 2010 08:45, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote:
I'd like to know your thoughts about this, what you agree/disagree with,
what you would add etc.
1. Why are apps packaged differently for different distros? Rpm, deb
etc I’d like to see an open standard for this.
Thanks for your comments both on here and on the blog.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about stuff that stops ME from using Linux
but I'm talking about stuff that makes it confusing for new users/turn off
new users. If you truly believe that open source software is the only
ethical way to
On 02/11/10 13:43, jr wrote:
On 2 November 2010 12:40, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote:
packages (DEB is NOT the defacto standard as someone posted).
where did you read that??
Debian packages are standard Unix ar archives that include two
gzipped, bzipped or lzmaed tar archives:
@Sean - I've been using Linux since 2005, though I didn't use it at all in
2008/early 2009. As stated before, these things don't stop ME from using
Linux/Ubuntu/whatever app I use, but from my experience, they stop new users
from using Linux/Ubuntu.
I'm not sure where you understand that I wanted
On 02/11/10 08:45, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Just wondering if any of you read Linux Format's 24 Things we'd change
about Linux (issue 137) and what your thoughts were? It got me thinking
about what I'd like to see changed in Linux so I wrote a blog post about it
(see link below).
Natalie,
think cars.
do you believe that having made driving easier, ie more user friendly
(with synchro-mesh'd clutches and automated everything), drivers have
become more competent, ie safer drivers?
computing is very similar, IMO. yes, 'pure' users (ie someone
employed to use one or two
@jr - I don't drive myself so your analogy is kind of lost on me ;-) I do
get your point however but I would also add that most users do not want to
be better computer administrators, they use a computer to actually get
something done (type a report, email their family, print a picture, record
On 02/11/10 14:14, Natalie Hooper wrote:
@Sean - I've been using Linux since 2005, though I didn't use it at all in
2008/early 2009. As stated before, these things don't stop ME from using
Linux/Ubuntu/whatever app I use, but from my experience, they stop new users
from using Linux/Ubuntu.
I agree with you that Linux has come a long way and that it is a massive
achievement.
I started using Linux (Debian) in 2004 or 2005 (can't remember exactly), I
stopped using it at end of 2007 because it was too unstable to record music
on (after recording a full album using Ardour, I gave up). I
On 02/11/10 17:26, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I think some of you are really misunderstanding my purpose here. My purpose
isn't to diss Linux, or to complain about it, but to constructively throw
ideas as to how to improve its user-friendliness. Now, if you don't want it
to become more
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 18:20 +, Sean Gibbins wrote:
Leading on from that, one more (hopefully pertinent) question: why does
Linux need to change beyond the continuous improvement we already see?
I'll qualify that further by asking anyone answering it to step back
from this release or
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Natalie Hooper wrote:
@Sean - I've been using Linux since 2005, though I didn't use it at all in
2008/early 2009. As stated before, these things don't stop ME from using
Linux/Ubuntu/whatever app I use, but from my experience, they stop new
users from using
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:52:55 +, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said:
And latterly rpms too...
Absolutely (sorry, I should have made that clear). My comment was in
response to ...package managers such as synaptic are built on top of rpm.
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On 02/11/10 17:26, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I think some of you are really misunderstanding my purpose here. My purpose
isn't to diss Linux, or to complain about it, but to constructively throw
ideas as to how to improve its user-friendliness.
I didn't think it was. All valid questions but some
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